Stocking form



Patented YAug. 28, 1923.

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CHARLES T. GRIFFITH, OF I!IOU'NT AIB/Y, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR TO PROCTOR &

SCHWARTZ, INCORPORATED, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, A CORPORATION OF PENNSYLVANIA.

s'rooKrNG FORM.

Application led May 15, 1922. Serial No. 561,197. i'

To @ZZ fio/om tmay concern.'

Be it known that I, CHARLES T. Gnirrrrrf, a citizen of the United States, residing in Mount Airy, y Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, have invented certain Improvements in Stocking Forms, of which the following is a spec-ication. i

My invention relates tio-certain improvements in stockingforms of the type known as fish tail forms. In this type ot' form :i stocking is creased at the sides and not at the front and back, and the heel orP the stocking is drawn over a heel projection, as well as over a toe project-ion.

One object of the presentinvent-io-n is to maire the toe portion of the stocking form of spring metal and tosecure the toe portion tothe rigid portion, which isl the body of the form, and which is also the form for the heel.

A further object of the inv-ention is to provide means for adjusting the toe portion vto accommodate stockings of different sizes.

In the accompanying drawings:

Fig. 1 is a side view of my imp-roved stocking form;

Fig. 2 is an edge view;

Fig. 3 is an edge view, showing the toe portion or the foot of the forni forced away from the heel portion;

Fig. 4 is an enlarged view, partly in section, (showing the method of securing the spring metal toe portion of the foot section to the body of the form;

Fig. 5 is a perspective view, showing Aa stocking on the form; and

Fig. 6 is a view illustrating a modification or" the invention.

Referring to the drawings, l is the body of the form made of metal, which is comparatively rigid. This form is shaped to it the leg portion of a stocking, as well as the heel portion, the end 2 being rounded, as shown, to it the heel of a. stocking. 3 is the toe and foot portion of the form. 'This part is made of thin spring metal and lis secured, in the present instance, to the b ody portion by screws 4, which extend into threaded holes 5 in the body portion. There is a series of these holes, as shown clearly in Figs. l and 4, so that the foot portion can be adjusted to fit stockings of dierent sizes.

'When a stocking is mounted on a forni,

it is drawn onto the form until the toe portion b of the stocking a, Fig. 5, is in position. forced away from the heelvk portion and the Then the toe portion of the form isV heel portion c is drawn down over the heel portion of the form by pressing do-wn von the sides (Z. Then the spring oot portion is allowed to return to its normal position. By this means, the entire stocking is pressed and shaped..

An alternative method or operation is to draw the stocking on the form until the toe portion of the stocking o is nearly in pothe stocking and the position of the .operaf i tors thumb and ingersiorcing the heel into proper position. The spring foot portionis then allowed to assume its normal position, thus clamping and shaping the heel portion of the stocking.

In Fig. 6, a modiication is illustrated in which the foot portion 3EL is preferably vsecured to the body portion la by a'rivet 4.

The lower end of the-foot portion is ianged at 6. This liange extends int-o a groove 7 in the-body portion, rigidlyv holding the foot portion in position. I

T claim: y 1

l. A. fish-tail stocking formmade of met-al, and having a rigid heel portion and a iiexible foot portion. v

2. The combination in a stocking form, of a body port-ion terminating in a heel portion; a toot portion secured to the body portion some 'distance from the endiof the 'heel portion, said foot portion'being made o spring metal. i

3 A stocking form of metal having a. body portion terminating in a rigid heel portion; and a spring metal foot portion' adjustably mounted on the body portion.

CHARLES T. GRIFFITH. 

